Monchique pear tree returns to the mountain range The town of Monchique will have a demonstration field with heritage varieties of the Monchique pear, a traditional fruit whose production has almost disappeared and which the authorities now want to preserve. The municipality and the Algarve Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Directorate (DRAP) will sign a cooperation protocol to implement the project, under which the field will be installed in the area surrounding the Convent of Nossa Senhora do Desterro. “We will place in Monchique 30 varieties so that farmers can select and use them in their plots of land and contribute to the maintenance of these varieties adapted to a region with successive droughts,” the regional director of Agriculture, Pedro Valadas Monteiro, told Lusa.